[TYPES] Diamond open access, cost and sustainability model: a JOSS example

[Gabriel Scherer]

Dear Tadeusz,

I can't comment on LMCS internal workings, but of course all scientific
processes rely on a lot of unremunerated work frpom scientists. The
organization of a conference is similar in this respect. (Of course I'm
very grateful to the people doing this work on both sides!)

Or is there a more specific claim that LMCS has researchers doing work that
is done by paid staff in other venues like JFP, as opposed to the work we
consider normal to ask our colleagues to do? My own experience of
publishing workshop post-proceedings at EPTCS (an arxiv overlay) was
nowhere the scale of a full journal, but I don't believe that it involved
any "extra" work compared to what is expected of our researcher colleagues
when preparing, say, a new PACMPL issue.


On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 2:48 PM Tadeusz Litak <tadeusz.litak at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On 3/6/21 6:17 PM, Tarmo Uustalu wrote:
> > Venues like EPTCS or LMCS appear to involve no or almost no cost only
> > because there is a lot of altruistic voluntary work put into them.
>
> Word. For years, I've watched closely how much unremunerated work goes
> into every issue of LMCS.
>
> Best,
>
> t.
>
>